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Category Archives: SOURCE=roadside markers

Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

“Once a sovereign nation”…

Posted byMarek7 May, 201815 May, 2018Posted in1800-1899, 1830s, 1840s, constitution, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:Canada, constitution, Indian Stream, markers, Pittsburg, United StatesLeave a comment on Republic of Indian Stream (Highway Marker #0001)

Frontier Quarrels

Five reasons for the raid…

Posted byMarek10 January, 201710 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, corn, cows, death, fish, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:1697, abenaki, corn, cotton mather, cows, fish, Hannah Dustin, hannah dustonLeave a comment on Frontier Quarrels

Hannah Dustin in the Snow

A wandering cartoonist visits the site of a massacre…

Posted byMarek5 December, 201610 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:Hannah Dustin, highway, history, markers, Penacook, truth2 Comments on Hannah Dustin in the Snow

Hannah Dustin (1697)

“Famous example of frontier heroism.” (sic)

Posted byMarek4 December, 201610 January, 2017Posted in1600-1699, 1690s, death, Massachusetts, Merrimack, NH history, Penacook, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:1697, abenaki, Hannah Dustin, hannah duston, haverhill, Massachusetts, massacre, raid2 Comments on Hannah Dustin (1697)

Swett 4: Wheel Trouble

1865: Swett’s train ride to the mountains goes smoothly … until the wheels come off!

Posted byMarek10 January, 201329 March, 2015Posted in1860s, Adventures of a Deaf-Mute in the White Mountains, Connecticut, SOURCE=HHS, SOURCE=roadside markers, Vermont, William B. SwettTags:train, well's river, William B. SwettLeave a comment on Swett 4: Wheel Trouble

In Goshen, It WAS a War…

Now here’s something interesting we couldn’t help but notice about the John W. Gunnison roadside historical marker in Goshen…

Posted byMarek1 December, 201230 December, 2012Posted in1850s, death, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:goshen, John Gunnison1 Comment on In Goshen, It WAS a War…

Historic Handshake (Claremont, 1995)

In a way, this might be one of NH’s strangest Highway Historical Markers…

Posted byMarek30 November, 201230 December, 2012Posted in1990s, Claremont, politics, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:Bill Clinton, Newt GingrichLeave a comment on Historic Handshake (Claremont, 1995)

Young Chase at Keene

Tragedies, travels, & teenage failures of one of New Hampshire’s most powerful exports…

Posted byMarek28 November, 201230 December, 2012Posted in1800s, 1810s, 1820s, Connecticut, Cornish, death, education, glass, hiking, judicial branch, Keene, Roxbury, Salmon P. Chase, SOURCE=Griffin, SOURCE=roadside markers, sources, VermontTags:Keene, nh, Salmon P. ChaseLeave a comment on Young Chase at Keene

Wanted: Your Artwork!

(Slightly re-touched photo from recent LFAD tour of NH Highway Historical Markers…) Send us your “LIVE FREE AND DRAW” image

Posted byMarek28 November, 201228 December, 2012Posted inSOURCE=roadside markers, Wanted: Your Artwork!4 Comments on Wanted: Your Artwork!

Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)

A roadside marker in Goshen hints at stories & mysteries from the Wild West…

Posted byMarek26 November, 201212 December, 2012Posted in1810s, 1830s, 1850s, death, education, Goshen, graves & memorials, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:CO, goshen, Hopkinton, John Gunnison, massacre, St. Louis, UT, West Point1 Comment on Capt. John W. Gunnison (Goshen)

Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

The famous abolitionist finds both prejudice and humanity in a NH graveyard: Douglass visited Pittsfield as part of a speaking tour through New England.  

Posted byMarek14 November, 20125 May, 2015Posted in1840s, graves & memorials, Pittsfield, SOURCE=roadside markersTags:1842, abolition, Frederick Douglass, grave, moses norris Jr., Pittsfield, slaveryLeave a comment on Frederick Douglass Visits Pittsfield (1842)

Moses Trussell (New London)

Wounded at Bunker Hill, and everything after…

Posted byMarek10 November, 201212 December, 2013Posted in1770s, 1840s, education, forestry, graves & memorials, Hopkinton, John Stark, Massachusetts, New London, Plaistow, revolutionary era, SOURCE=roadside markers1 Comment on Moses Trussell (New London)

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